XII 

 GAME LAWS AND GAME SUPPLY 



AT a recent meeting of a club of big-game 

 hunters in an Eastern city, a small band of 

 Blackfoot Indians furnished a part of the 

 evening's entertainment by giving some of their 

 tribal songs and dances. They were professional 

 Indians, so to speak, employed by a railroad for ad- 

 vertising purposes. Another part of the entertain- 

 ment of the evening was a series of moving pictures 

 and stereopticon views from the West. 



One of these views, apparently a colored repro- 

 duction of one of the Catlin paintings, showed a 

 hunting scene an Indian running a buffalo and 

 shooting it with bow and arrow. When this life- 

 size picture was flashed on the screen every one of 

 the Black feet gave a wild whoop of joy. It took 

 them all back to the old days of the buffalo, days 

 that the Indian has never forgotten. 



Curiously enough, on the morning following this 

 incident there came to the desk of the writer a clip- 

 ping from a Kansas City newspaper which some- 



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